Mashup Madness

IBM has announced a mashup integration that fits Cognos Business Intelligence with a new version of the company's Mashup Center . The two services fit together to create an environment that leverages IBM's existing technology base with a service that's right out of a play book for social computing. It's a small move for IBM but demonstrates that the company is thinking strategically about how to leverage its strengths in business intelligence and analytics. At the same time it shows how IBM is adopting new ways for users to communicate more effectively with multiples sources of information. Sponsor IBM is leveraging it Cognos Business ... Read Full Story

This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009 , PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student. The API (Application Programming Interface) has been an essential component for creating applications that hook into or utilize web apps such as Twitter and Facebook. With it, developers have been able to create some amazing mashups and tools. Some of the most helpful and oft-used applications on the web wouldn’t be possible without APIs. And that makes sense. Why would any developer want to reinvent the wheel when they could just utilize ... Read Full Story

Last.fm besides being one of the most popular online radio and music communities, also has one of the most popular online music APIs. Possibly the most popular. Each month we continue to see a variety of new music-themed mashups added to our directory built on the Last.fm API . In the first three weeks of this month alone there have been 5 more Last.fm mashups added. That means that out of 231 music mashups at least 84 use the Last.fm API . And not that developers don’t have other options given that there are 44 music APIs to choose from. What’s new? Here’s a ... Read Full Story

What do you get when you combine 36 different APIs into 28 different applications? You get this week’s additions to our mashup directory . Some of the less frequently seen APIs include Freebase , Capitol Words , MTV , as well as DigitalBucket . Which API was used most? It was the Twitter API , used in 10 mashups this week. And in yet another example of one API being built on top of another API is the TwitPic API , a Twitter-based service, used in this week’s twipick entry . The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:   Amazon ... Read Full Story

Do you want to use the power of open APIs and mashups to help make the US Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent? If so, then you’ll want to enter the new Apps for America Mashup Contest from the good folks at the Sunlight Foundation . Like last year’s Mashup Congress contest , this is another notable competition from Sunlight, whose nonprofit mission is to help organizations use Internet technologies to make information about Congress and the federal government more accessible to the American people to create a “catalyst for greater political transparency and to foster more openness and accountability in government.” How to ... Read Full Story

This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009 , PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Get 50% off if you register with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student. We here at Mashable are big fans of mashup services — it’s our name, after all! And at the heart of almost all of these mashups is a term you’ll see frequently thrown around related to web services: APIs, or application programming interfaces. In this feature we’ll celebrate some of the great mashups we know and love that were made possible by the existence of APIs. We know there ... Read Full Story

Telephony and voice APIs are one of the most active segments of the API and mashup world (our directory has 42 telephony-related APIs ). For example, in the past week, two of the latest mashups in the directory use telephony APIs in innovative ways: Broadsoft Xtended Chumby Widget : Allows you to use the BroadSoft Xtended API and your Chumby to view your call history, click to return missed, placed or received calls, and to set Do Not Disturb using the BroadSoft web services. More at our BroadSoft + Chumby mashup profile . voicetag : Leave or broadcast voice messages to your Facebook friends ... Read Full Story